Mswati III of the Kingdom of eSwatini arrives at King Shaka International Airport ahead of the 46th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government. He was received by South Africa’s Minister of Water and Sanitation, Ms Pemmy Majodina -- image via x We in Friends of Swazi Freedom are deeply troubled by the announcement that King Mswati III of Swaziland has landed in Durban to be a participant in the 46th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government. Although th

Protests seeking justice for Thabani Nkomonye in 2021 in the lead up to the massacre -- image via People's Dispatch Statement on the Fifth Anniversary of the June 2021 Massacre of Swazi Protestors by the Royal Security Forces We in Friends of Swazi Freedom reaffirm our militant solidarity with the struggling masses of Swaziland today on the hallowed fifth anniversary of the June Massacre. Five years ago today the June 2021 uprising against the bankrupt and brutal monarchical

African Liberation Day 2026 Statement: Friends of Swazi Freedom May 25, 1963 marked the formation of the Organization of African Unity which was a transnational organization aimed to foster unity in action among the independent African nations and coordinate to support national liberation organizations who aimed to liberate Africa completely from colonialism. Today, millions of Africans and revolutionaries celebrate this anniversary as African Liberation Day, a day of celebra

Kim Il Sung Monument in Pyongyang -- Roman Harak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jason Cohen, Friends of Swazi Freedom April 15th marked a glorious day in the history of the Korean nation’s struggle for national liberation and socialist construction and for the worldwide revolutionary movement writ large. On April 15, 1912 the future Great Leader and emancipator of the Korean nation, Kim Il Sung was born. We send warm greetings and militant solidarity to the Korean wo

King Mswati III on March 31 -- image via X Statement on King Mswati III’s Reaffirmation of the Criminalization of the LGBTI+ Community We in Friends of Swazi Freedom fiercely condemn the comments of King Mswati III at a ceremony of pastors in which he declared that “the spirit of sodom and gomorrah” will not be accepted in Swaziland. Due to the tyrannical nature of the absolute monarchy we cannot take these statements as just one of a demagogue, instead this is a complete rea

Smoke rises above Tehran after an air strike -- image via X We Condemn the Trump Administration’s Lawless Attack on Iran and Demand Its Immediate Halt February 28, 2026 Kazuo Shii Chairperson of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party On the 28th, the Trump administration and Israel launched a large-scale attack against Iran. This is an unlawful preemptive strike that brutally tramples the UN Charter and international law, and we condemn it in the strongest term

Image via Facebook Statement Regarding the Brutal Kidnapping and Incarceration of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole We in Friends of Swazi Freedom wholeheartedly condemn the brutal kidnapping of comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, the general secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya. According to the Communist Party Marxist Kenya our comrade was kidnapped while in Isiolo and brutally beaten and tortured by the state security forces of the bankrupt regime of William Ruto. Comrade Booke

Owen Nxumlao, Minister of Education and Training in Swaziland, news video screenshot Jason Cohen, Friends of Swazi Freedom As the school year begins in Swaziland students who are already facing social and economic insecurity due to the exploitative nature of the Tinkhundla regime are now faced with the threat of expulsion and discipline due to their deviation from heterosexual norms according to Owen Nxumlao who is the Minister of Education and Training in Swaziland. In a sta

The Friends of Swazi Freedom are "calling on all progressives, revolutionaries, anti-colonialists, and anti-imperialists to join us" in...